Endangered species
Two in the bush: The quest to save Australia’s wildlife
Tanya Plibersek came into office promising no new extinctions. This small brown bird, native to a tiny island, could be the canary in her coalmine.
- by Miki Perkins
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Plibersek greenlights new coal mine for first time, sparking fossil fuel backlash
Green groups are demanding the Albanese government stop new fossil fuel projects from driving global warming higher.
- by Mike Foley
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Planning and development
Residents angry as Labor donor gets green light to develop Glen Iris
Jandakot residents have learnt the developer they oppose paving over the former Glen Iris golf course was a member of a cash-for-access Labor Business Roundtable.
- by Hamish Hastie
Fears cockatoos will starve as state of WA drags feet on pine logging freeze
The WA government’s response to calls for a moratorium on logging the Carnaby’s black cockatoo habitat has been less than ideal, despite its own numbers forecasting a major decline in the species’ northern population.
- by Holly Thompson
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Biodiversity
Bigger than Bali: WA’s newest national park on the desert’s edge
Western Australia has a new national park with a track record for combining science and Indigenous knowledge to save endangered species.
- by Peter Milne
How the healthiest koala colony collapsed into extinction
Calamity has struck the koalas of Gunnedah, the NSW town that still calls itself the “koala capital of the world”.
- by Nick O'Malley and Wolter Peeters
‘Risen from the dead’: The head-swelling zombie fish is back after 80 years
This little Victorian fish was presumed extinct in the 1940s, but after successful captive breeding, the first batch is about to be released into the wild.
- by Liam Mannix
Fat-tailed marsupials, wingless flies: The unique Victorian animals scientists want protected
They’re fierce, carnivorous and store energy in their tail like a camel’s hump. But despite their feisty nature, when researchers looked in grasslands where the fat-tailed dunnarts were common, they found none.
- by Miki Perkins
Major Mitchell’s pink cockatoo among new threatened species on growing national list
Since colonisation, about 100 of Australia’s unique flora and fauna species have been wiped off the planet. The rate of loss has not slowed in the past 200 years.
- by Laura Chung
Hairdressing crabs, vicious wasps and gruesome plants among 600 new species
More than 600 Australian species were discovered by scientists in the past year, but there are still 300,000 to go.
- by Mike Foley
Shark nets and fishing hooks risk killing off endangered species
Activists want shark nets removed in places like Bondi, where it was originally designed to kill the animals rather than shepherd them away from swimmers.
- by Nick O'Malley